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That's strange. We seem to be doing OK for ourselves... I think a POLITE nudge to Dan might be in order....

Ed Verres has plenty of faults, but he's the parent that stayed with his child. He doesn't seem the warmest man in the universe, but he does come across as no-nonsense and down to earth. I can't see him calling a marriage off because the first child was magically impaired or because his wife didn't want more, and I cannot see him kicking Noriko out unless she already wanted to go. It's not in his character. Noriko doesn't have a "character" yet. We don't know much about her except for a few hurtful things she has done. It was Norko who kept scanning Tedd for signs of magic ability not Ed Verres, and then she's the one who left. Certainly Mrs. Kitsune harbors a huge grudge against her sister for how she acted towards Tedd. Those are the dots we have to connect and they point right at Noriko as the problem, not Ed Verres.

Got it in one, Mr. Garibaldi...

Possible. I'm sure there were a lot of harsh words said between Noriko and Ed Verres before Noriko left.. I too would think that taking a second shot at babymaking would be in order before giving up. Lacking to suggest something more likely, I choose to believe Noirko did not agree. She judged her union with Ed Verres entirely based on Tedd's lack of magic and walked out the door. I'm sure there's more to it than this. I expect Dan will humanize Noriko's reasons for leaving some time in the future and I will come to a less harsh view of her. But today is not that day...

I see what you did there...

True. Dan does like to give many of his character sympathetic reasons for doing what they do. But until I know what Noriko's reason actually were, it looks to me like... Noriko was hung up on her family's tradition of monster-slaying, married Ed Verres to join the power of his lineage to hers (and breed the next generation of as-good or better monster slayers), could not accept that Tedd came out so apparently powerless, and when she finally accepted it, left Ed Verres and Tedd looking for a man who could give her what she wanted and what family honor demanded. Until I like her better, I wish upon her a son like Damian Wayne, only without his humility and good humor.

Yes. He also goes on to do a lot of other exposition. He is his father's son...

I don't think discipline was ever a problem with Noriko. Pride, the needs of her own child? Those things she might have needed a little work on...

Tedd talks about that briefly at Grace's Birthday party...

I'd tend to agree, It wasn't that long ago that the Kitsunes had Ellen and Nanase babysitting Akikio...

Just had a thought. Jerry could appear and tell Susan what he does and doesn't know as long as he includes his strong intuition of some kind of connection between Susan and Diane. . It would at least temporarily reduce Susan's angst over her father's cheating until more is known about Diane's birth parents and situation.

Saved me the trouble of posting this...

Any legislature with that kind of idle time on its hands is scary...

They could go both routes independently.

I'm already pretty invested in Rhoda. Right now she seems the single best TF subject among all characters in EGS.

Ah, ELO...One of the many bands I'd dearly love to have seen in concert. I had little money for such things in the 70s and 80s and not everybody even came to town...

I'd rather prefer "San error in your favor"...

Or perhaps Bon Jovi. This was the 80s...

That must be a great time-saver in Call of Cthulu games...

That would definitely be "Band on the Run" wouldn't it?

...please have exact change.

Ashley's stock is on the rise. I'll buy a hundred shares of her..

Put your hands on your hips, and bring your knees in tight...

A teacher in college told me I had a duplicate who was playing drums in a band around town. Not that *I* play drums...

So how likely is it that Elliot can transform people and just hasn't read his spellbook enough to know it?